Re:Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole
by ElCapitanMarkla on Friday April 26, 2019 @01:41AM
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The stats are fantastic
I've picked up a few things that were making a crazy amount of requests. I don't know what Alexa is up to but over 1000 requests to device-metrics-us.amazon.com blocked each day
Here's a screenshot of the current blocking situation from the phone:
https://i.imgur.com/lTsZFhE.png
Almost 60%... I don't install many apps, I use Firefox with Ublock Origin. Most of the blocked requests are to Google or Facebook.
At home I have it network-wide, and typically the block percentage stays under 10%. Until my partner opens his Windows 10 laptop, then the block graph goes up. Also my television talks to advertiser trackers (LG), which I can easily block from Pi-Hole.
Why it's better than just a hosts file? One is I can easily whitelist/blacklist domains from the UI or I can just disable all blocklists if I need for any reason. I also like the statistics it gives me.